Dana Liva

ISU R-SO Dana Liva competing in the W Platform Diving at the 2018 Big 12 Swimming and Diving Championship at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center on Saturday, February 24, 2018.

Photo by: Liz Parke

ISU R-SO Dana Liva competing in the W 1M Diving at the 2018 Big 12 Swimming and Diving Championship at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center on Thursday, February 22, 2018.

Photo by: Liz Parke

Position:
Diving
Class:
Redshirt Senior
High School:
Prospect
Hometown:
Arlington Heights, Ill.
Prev School:
Wisconsin

Personal Records

Event	Score	Opponent
1-Meter	294.30	Kansas (17-18)
3-Meter	304.35	Kansas (18-19)
*Platform	283.40	2018 Big 12 Championships

*Iowa State School Record

Awards and Honors
All-Big 12 First Team: Platform (2018)
All-Big 12 Second Team: One-Meter (2018); Platform (2019)
ISU Most Valuable Diver (2018; 2019)
ISU Newcomer of the Year (2018)
Big 12 Diver of the Week: Jan. 9 (2018)

Dr. Gerald Lage Award: 2020
Academic All-Big 12 First Team: 2018-19: 2019-20

2019-20 (Redshirt-Senior)

Earned All-Big 12 First Team honors on the platform … top Cyclone on the platform, second on the three-meter and third on the one-meter … finished 35^th (224.70) on the one-meter and 22^nd (194.15) on platform at the Zone Diving Championship … competed in ‘A’ finals on platform (4^th, 266.25) and ‘B’ finals on the one (13^th, 259.65) and three-meter (13^th, 268.90) at the Big 12 Championship … posted three Zone cuts in each of the three disciplines … won the three-meter competition (269.70) at Nebraska and against South Dakota (297.35) … posted two season-best scores of 279.45 on the one-meter and 299.10 on the three-meter for third place against Iowa … named to the Academic All-Big 12 First Team … earned the Dr. Gerald Lage Award.

2018-19 (Redshirt-Junior)
Led the Cyclones on the one-meter and platform … won six events, three on each springboard … swept the diving events against Northern Iowa, posting a 282.40 on one-meter and 294.90 on three-meter … set a personal record 304.35 on the three-meter at Kansas, moving her to eighth all-time in the event … earned a season-high 234.45 on platform in the prelims at the Iowa Invite … qualified for platform finals at the Iowa Invite, finishing seventh with a 222.35 ... scored in all three disciplines at the Big 12 Championships, ending in 12th on one-meter (250.45), 15th on three-meter (237.50) and sixth on platform (211.95) … earned All-Big 12 Second Team honors on the platform … qualified for Zones in all three diving events for the second-consecutive year … At Zone diving scored 235.60 for 29th on one-meter, 233.15 for 46th on three-meter and 211.35 for 19th on platform … named to the Academic All-Big 12 First Team.

2017-18 (Redshirt-Sophomore)
Standout redshirt sophomore season, setting new personal records in all three disciplines … five top-three finishes on the one-meter, including victories against Omaha, Northern Iowa and Kansas … placed in the top-three in six three-meter events, finishing second against Nebraska, Omaha and Kansas … set a pair of personal bests on one-meter (294.30) and three-meter (282.53) versus Kansas … set a PR at the Mizzou Invite (fourth, 253.20) that placed her third all-time with the now-fifth-best score … named Big 12 Diver of the Week for her performance against Iowa ... ranks seventh on Iowa State’s all-time one-meter list … competed in all three disciplines at the Big 12 Championships, placing seventh on one-meter (271.35), 11th on three-meter (272.85), and third on platform (283.40) … her score of 283.40 broke the school record … earned a pair of All-Big 12 honors at the conference meet, First-Team on platform and Second-Team on one-meter … qualified for Zones on the one-meter (28th, 246.75), three-meter (39th, 239.20) and platform (17th, 421.45) … holds three of the top-10 platform scores in Iowa State history.

2016-17 (Sophomore - Wisconsin)
Finished eighth in the 1-meter (231.75) and 10th in the 3-meter (256.50) vs. Minnesota ... placed fifth in the 1-meter board (262.73) and eighth on the 3-meter (227.25) against Auburn.

2015-16 (Freshman - Wisconsin)
Placed sixth on the platform with a new PR score of 231.90 at the Missouri Diving Invitational, also placed 21st on the 1-meter (238.60) and 24th on the 3-meter (229.00) ... finished 20th in the 1-meter event at the Big Ten Championship with a score of 266.45 points ... placed fifth in the 1-meter (270.52) and sixth in the 3-meter (260.17) vs. Green Bay ... finished eighth in the 1-meter event at USC with a score of 229.35 ... placed sixth in the platform event with a score of 231.10 ... finished sixth in the 3-meter with a score of 243.75 at Northwestern ... tallied a fifth-place finish in the 3-meter at Indiana with a score of 277.73 ... finished fifth vs. Minnesota on the 1-meter with a personal-best score of 277.05.

High School
Dove for Prospect High School and Glenbrook Aquatics under Antonino Bondi and Tony Santucci ... 3-time Speedo All-American ... 4-time ISA All-State team ... placed in the top-six at the Illinois State Championships during three of her four years, including a championship on the platform in 2014.

Personal
Daughter of Kim and Eric Liva ... brother, Anthony Liva, will dive for Trinity University ... born Nov. 8, 1996 .. majoring in psychology